Evaluating the outcomes of intensive critical thinking instruction for social work students

Social workers require critical thinking skills to analyse situations which present themselves in the course of professional work and in making decisions about the most appropriate forms of social work intervention. The 4-year Bachelor of Social Work degree at the University of Newcastle, Australia, introduced an intensive instructional unit on critical thinking at the beginning of the final year of the course. The Cornell Critical Thinking Test, the Ennis—Weir Essay Test and a qualitative student self-appraisal were administered to students in the fourth year of the degree prior to the intensive instructional unit on critical thinking and again after the unit had been completed. From the results it was concluded that explicit and concentrated instruction on critical thinking assisted social work students to improve their critical thinking abilities and to identify principles of critical thinking.     

大学英语教学改革的实践与思考

本文对大学英语"教"与"学"的问题作了分析与思考,提出应从教育理念、教学思想、教学方法、教学手段和教学质量管理五个方面入手深化教学改革,使大学英语教学从根本上实现"五个转变",从而获得事半功倍的教学效果。     

以动词形式表达将来时间的语法手段(英文)

本文归纳了英语以动词表达将来时间的主要语法手段:“shall/will”,“be goingto”“be to”,一般现在时,现在进行体,将来进行体;然后对各种用法及其意义作了说明和比较.     

论奥尼尔的俄狄浦斯情结

文学创作是被压抑的愿望的满足。美国现代戏剧之父尤金·奥尼尔的创作也不例外。无论是从其个人经历或是其剧作中的人物形象,都可看出奥尼尔身上具有显著的俄狄浦斯情结。本文以弗洛伊德主义有关文学的理论为依托,利用心理分析概念如压抑、转移和升华对奥尼尔的俄狄浦斯情结进行了探讨和分析,以期深刻地挖掘出促使其从事戏剧创作活动的深层心理动机。     

A comparison of applications of microcomputers in production

Earlier research has established that the full potential of microcomputers is not being achieved by production management in small companies. Moreover, questionnaire results and in-company interviews were used to support suggested reasons for this situation. This paper reports further work carried out to examine the issues raised in far more detail. Collaboration took place with nine separate companies over a range of applications. Three of these case studies are presented in detail, and general conclusions drawn relating both to these specific studies and to the total collaboration.     

Educational and employment outcomes of adults formerly placed in foster care: Results from the Northwest Foster Care Alumni Study

This study evaluated the intermediate and long-term effects of family foster care on adult functioning using a sample of 659 young adults from two public and one private child welfare agencies, case record reviews, structured interviews, and a survey response rate of 76%. Foster care alumni completed high school at a rate comparable to the general population, but a disproportionately high number of them completed high school via a GED. Alumni completion rates for postsecondary education were low. Consequently, many alumni were in fragile economic situations: one-third of the alumni had household incomes at or below the poverty level, one-third had no health insurance, and more than one in five experienced homelessness after leaving foster care. Two foster care experience areas were estimated to significantly reduce the number of undesirable outcomes in the Education outcome domain: positive placement history (e.g., high placement stability, few failed reunifications), and having broad independent living preparation (as exemplified by having concrete resources upon leaving care). For the Employment and Finances outcome domain, receiving broad independent living preparation (as exemplified by having concrete resources upon leaving care) was estimated to significantly reduce the number of undesirable outcomes.     

Planning Australia's Health and Welfare Services

The report of the Health-Welfare Task Force to the Royal Commission on Australian Government Administration brings together for the first time a great deal of useful information about health and welfare services in this country. However, restricted definitions of health and welfare compounded by strict adherence to a structuralist model of society leads to a predictable set of proposals for the planning, delivery and financing of services in a federal structure. It is to be hoped that the recommendations for greater research efforts and for increased community participation will be given enthusiastic support at all levels of welfare organization.